Taitu Hotel Addis Ababa

... for those who like seeing truly far flung places that challenge as well as entertain them). Took a KLM flight from Amsterdam to Addis Ababa. It stopped in Khartoum, Sudan which is in the middle of the brownest, driest looking place I have ever been. ...

... suprisingly I turned out to be a lousy student. I also struck up a conversation with a nice English girl who is working in Addis Ababa for two weeks doing charity work with streetkids. I'm hoping to meet up with her for a beer sometime this week. On ...

... snorkelling with the lonely Zanzibari boatman?) but as that now seems so long ago now we must move on swiftly to Ethiopia.  Addis Ababa has its charm.  At the airport I met a brother and sister called Sophie and James (from Cambridge/London ...

... brush our teeth, we dreamed of a better tomorrow. Start: Adenium Campsite, Awassa, ETH. 14:00 End: Ithegue Taitu Hotel, Addis Ababa. 20:00 Distance Traveled: a little over 150 km, can't remember exact distance Road Conditions: traffic jams and ...

... the time that it had to be made clear that people had to pay for what they consumed. And: Paul Theroux about Addis Ababa in his book Dark Star Safari: It was 100 years old but had a look of timeless decrepitude. Unprepossessing from a distance, ...